Jakub Bijak

Senior Lecturer in DemographyUniversity of Southampton

Jakub Bijak is a Senior Lecturer in Demography at the University of Southampton, UK. He holds a PhD from the Warsaw School of Economics, obtained for work on Bayesian migration forecasting. Before, he worked in the Central European Forum for Migration and Population Research (CEFMR) in Warsaw, and in the Demographic Unit of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. In 2007, he received the Jerzy Z. Holzer Medal for contributions to Polish demography. Jakub works on various applications of quantitative methods in demography, with focus on migration, population forecasting, mortality, and demography of conflict and violence. He is interested in demographic applications of statistical methods, agent-based modelling and decision-making under uncertainty. His other publications include articles in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, European Journal of Population, and Population and Environment, and a monograph